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"Kay" wrote in message ... Oh, bindweed's OK, especially if you are lucky enough to have the one with big pink striped flowers instead of white. And it's very satisfying to pull out whole tangled ropes of it. And half your flippin' planting comes with it! No thank you. The little scented pink bindweed is lovely. Grrr. :-) -- Brian "I know about kittens and knitting. Will that do?" |
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"Janet Baraclough" wrote in message
... Plastic. Including white and "terracotta" plastic planters, brightly coloured plastic toys, plastic furniture and fences, plastic plates on the plastic table, plastic mini-marquees. Plastic raincovers on plastic or wooden garden furniture. Plastic herons, plastic gnomes, plastic bunnies, plastic foxes, plastic ducks, plastic ponds with the plastic showing... Oi, I resemble your remarks :) :) My hubbie works at a plastics factory so the more plastic that's used the longer he keeps his job :) :) And some of the new plastic "terracotta" pots are so realistic that one has to knock on them to see if they're real or not. And I sheepishly have to admit to a plastic gnome (oh dear, I see your point!), and when I fell over at my barbecue the other week and smashed my china plate (no, I hadn't been drinking), I wished I'd had a plastic one instead !!!!! My pet hates are bedding plants, particularly begonias, pelargoniums and bizzie-lizzies, all neatly spaced out in regimented rows in narrow borders around a neat, square lawn. I like bedding plants, but not used in an orderly fashion, and I admire such gardens because they do look colourful throughout the summer, but I prefer a more haphazard style (in my personal appearance and housekeeping, as well as in my garden)!! |
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On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 23:23:42 +0100, Klara wrote:
I don't think I think 'how awful' or 'naff' or 'are they colour blind' - it's just that that style of gardening leaves me cold. Yes! Especially red/blue/yellow combinations! Oh no - cerise/orange/bright purple is far worse! Regards, VivienB |
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On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 21:08:30 +0100, "Just Molly"
wrote: I hate lawns. Huge expanses of nothingness however well cared for they are. I also hate neatly cut edges and borders with alternating blue and white lobelia and red salvias. A 'gardener' who uses hedge trimmers to cut every single shrub in a largish garden (not ours - he wouldn't have lived another day if he did this here!) into the same 'hot air balloon' shape, all at the same time, regardless of spring/summer flowering, etc. I especially hate him for doing this to what was a lovely Amelanchier, one of my favourite shrubs. Regards, VivienB |
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"VivienB" wrote in message ... On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 21:08:30 +0100, "Just Molly" wrote: I hate lawns. Huge expanses of nothingness however well cared for they are. I also hate neatly cut edges and borders with alternating blue and white lobelia and red salvias. A 'gardener' who uses hedge trimmers to cut every single shrub in a largish garden (not ours - he wouldn't have lived another day if he did this here!) into the same 'hot air balloon' shape, all at the same time, regardless of spring/summer flowering, etc. I especially hate him for doing this to what was a lovely Amelanchier, one of my favourite shrubs. Regards, VivienB And I HATE that red cedar (bright orange) wood stain. Especially if the shed, fence, gate and decking is all done in the same nasty garish colour. |
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The message gWhDc.104$%m5.81@newsfe4-gui
from "Sue" contains these words: I have a small garden so my pet hate is bare soil! That's okay Sue..bare soil in a large garden is even more horrible ;-) Janet |
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So fond of this quote, even though I haven't achieved it.
Annihilating all that's made To a green thought in a green shade. Andrew Marvell |
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On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 12:20:45 +0100, Sacha
wrote: On 26/6/04 4:46, in article , "Dave Poole" wrote: On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 23:56:44 +0100, Kay wrote: I don't think I think 'how awful' or 'naff' or 'are they colour blind' - it's just that that style of gardening leaves me cold. Snip Forsythia, bizzy lizzies, annual salvias, Calceolarias, 'cute' garden ornaments, ditto the Chrysanths and EE glads, (though I have a fondness for some Dahlias) Cupressus leylandii, not mad about marigolds, monkey puzzle trees. Please do not be too hard on Leylandii! Cut off the trunk about 18 inches shorter than the final height required, then cut twice a year. This gives a pretty good hedge quickly. The Leylandii problem is largely one of the owners, not the plants. Peter. |
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On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 23:56:44 +0100, Kay
wrote: Spotted laurel -- Kay "Do not insult the crocodile until you have crossed the river" Oh, I think it has a place. It's got one in my garden anyway. I prefer it to fences. I have tried for years to cover all ours. You would all probably dislike many of the plants in my garden, a lot of which are from the sweepings of the HPS, or some I actually chose like Phlomis and Evening Primrose. Now I've got a pile of Echium seedlings - the ones that grow very tall with blue flowers in the second year. They are a result of an offer I couldn't refuse in The Times. Got a lot of Aconite too and they never look right and the Gardener's garters and leathery leaved ivy are going berserk again. But there's not much soil to be seen, Diana |
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On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 18:42:30 +0100, VivienB wrote:
On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 23:23:42 +0100, Klara wrote: I don't think I think 'how awful' or 'naff' or 'are they colour blind' - it's just that that style of gardening leaves me cold. Yes! Especially red/blue/yellow combinations! Oh no - cerise/orange/bright purple is far worse! Try the combination in one of my big planters this year: a soft orange osteospermum predominates, but is molested by a lapis lazuli anagallis, bright yellow sanvitalia, brilliant red callibrachoas, a fluorescent-magenta phlox (and a matching callibrachoa), and one or two other items carefully chosen to give maximum clash. Yee-haw! Ride'm cowboy! And I love the combination of Geranium 'Anne Folkard' (deep violent magenta) with hot orange crocosmias. My attitude: pastel gardens for pastel people. -- Rodger Whitlock, Victoria, BC, Canada "Listening to the [Opus Clavicembalisticum] is much like Mussolini is alleged to have reported about governing the Italians: it's not impossible, just POINTLESS." ----Jeffrey Friedman, 2004/06/24 |
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"Rodger Whitlock" wrote in message ... On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 18:42:30 +0100, VivienB wrote: On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 23:23:42 +0100, Klara wrote: I don't think I think 'how awful' or 'naff' or 'are they colour blind' - it's just that that style of gardening leaves me cold. Yes! Especially red/blue/yellow combinations! Oh no - cerise/orange/bright purple is far worse! Try the combination in one of my big planters this year: a soft orange osteospermum predominates, but is molested by a lapis lazuli anagallis, bright yellow sanvitalia, brilliant red callibrachoas, a fluorescent-magenta phlox (and a matching callibrachoa), and one or two other items carefully chosen to give maximum clash. Yee-haw! Ride'm cowboy! Hey, Rodger, how big is that planter? And I love the combination of Geranium 'Anne Folkard' (deep violent magenta) with hot orange crocosmias. My attitude: pastel gardens for pastel people. I have a wider taste than yours, for which I am truly thankful. I can live with your choice of colours *and* pastels as well. All that matters is that each plant should be visible, look healthy and do what it should do. To hell with what its neighbour is doing. Franz |
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In message Z51Dc.78$6r.32@newsfe2-win, Just Molly
writes [snip] or My god are they *colour blind*! Some of us are - not that the comment offends me in the slightest as I know what you mean. -- Philip Powell Looking north across the Derwent Valley and Northumberland to The Cheviot |
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"Janet Baraclough" wrote in message ... The message gWhDc.104$%m5.81@newsfe4-gui from "Sue" contains these words: I have a small garden so my pet hate is bare soil! That's okay Sue..bare soil in a large garden is even more horrible ;-) Janet ------------------------ I have never been more convinced that all correspondents disliking any flowering plant or colour combination are simply 'extracting the Michael'!! Surely, there is nothing to compare with a flower or flowers in any combination? A simple fresh flower can have no competition and searching for new floral experiences is a pastime without peer. You don't convince me~~ Regards Brian. |
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